{"id":560276,"date":"2026-01-25T17:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/560276\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:58:21","slug":"is-kawhi-leonard-playing-tonight-clippers-vs-nets-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/560276\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Kawhi Leonard playing tonight? Clippers vs. Nets injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday evening, the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/los-angeles-clippers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> will hit the floor for a home game against the Brooklyn Nets. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/los-angeles-clippers\/clippers-kawhi-leonards-minutes-restriction-la-almost-choked-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kawhi Leonard is on<\/a> the injury report for this one, currently listed as questionable due to a left knee contusion as well as an illness. Here&#8217;s everything we know about Leonard&#8217;s injury and his playing status <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/brooklyn-nets\/nets-news-nic-claxton-undergoing-mri-on-finger-after-late-game-exit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vs the Nets.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Watch NBA games LIVE with fuboTV (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/lp\/nba\/?irad=356361&amp;irmp=492408\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener nofollow\">Get Access | Save $30<\/a>)*<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s playing status vs the Nets<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3664957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Michael-Porter-Jr_d6f742.jpg\" alt=\"Jan 9, 2026; Brooklyn, New York, USA; Brooklyn Nets forward Michael Porter Jr. (17) controls the ball against Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard (2) during the third quarter at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-Imagn Images\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  \/>Brad Penner-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>Given his questionable designation <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-01-25_09_00AM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on the injury report<\/a>, there is currently some doubt as to whether or not Kawhi Leonard will be able to give it a go on Sunday night vs the Nets. Leonard missed a couple of games recently due to a knee issue as the Clippers closed out a road trip, but he was back in the lineup for the team&#8217;s Thursday night win over the crosstown rival Los Angeles Lakers, performing well in what turned out to be a narrow victory.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Leonard on the Clippers&#8217; injury report is Bogdan Bogdanovic, who will remain out of the lineup due to left hamstring injury management, as well as Derrick Jones Jr., who is also out with a knee sprain.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Noah Clowney is questionable for the Nets, while Cam Thomas will remain out of the lineup due to a left ankle sprain.<\/p>\n<p>The Clippers have started to slowly but surely climb their way back into the mix in the Western Conference in recent weeks, currently sitting at 20-24. If the season ended today, they would be in the play-in round, which seemed like an impossible scenario just a few weeks ago given their listless start to the year.<\/p>\n<p>If Leonard can manage to stay relatively healthy from here on out, there&#8217;s no reason why the Clippers can&#8217;t keep climbing as the second half of the season gets underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday evening, the Los Angeles Clippers will hit the floor for a home game against the Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,529,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,14502],"class_list":{"0":"post-560276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-clippers","10":"tag-kawhi-leonard","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-clippers","13":"tag-laclippers","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesclippers","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nba-injury"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115957040544770408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}